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Lost Little Girl
 - A LoTGD Module [www.lotgd.org]

Written by defproc [www.defproc.co.uk / defproc at defproc.co.uk]
Copyright (c) 2006, defproc.co.uk

This module produces a forest event in which the player encounters a little
girl. This might sound weird but its based on a similar event in LORD2. The
player chooses whether to help the child find her mother or to ignore her.
If the player chooses to help her, he/she must defeat n* creatures to unlock
the 'find mother' village/inn event. If the player dies while accompanying a
girl, the girl's spirit is seen in the shades or graveyard shortly thereafter,
creating/increasing a 'guilt' stat for the player. Guilt deprives the player
of 2 forest fights per day for n* days. If the player manages to return the
child to its mother, he/she is given the option to accept a payment, details
(x** gold and y** gems) of which aren't known until the payment's accepted. If
the player refuses payment, charm is gained, 'guilt' decreases and the
'Unselfishness' buff (from Heidi) is applied for 20 rounds.

While accompanying a girl, the player has the option to kill her (again, from
LORD2 - I'm not a creep!). This option can be disabled* via the module
configuration in the grotto. Killing a girl gives the player 1 experience and
n* guilt days. A charm point is also deducted.

While travelling with a girl, an event may occur in which the girl insists on
taking a break to make a daisy chain. This costs a forest fight but heals the
player and gives 'inspiration' buff.

In the future I would like to add a 'mass murderer' feature, which has some
sort of effect when a player has killed more than n* girls. The lifetime
number of girls a player has killed is already recorded (and currently unused)
for this purpose.

* Admin-configurable value
** gold_reward = base_gold_reward* + (per_lvl_gold_reward* x playerlevel) and
    gem_reward = base_gems_reward* + (per_lvl_gems_reward* x playerlevel)

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Wow, I wasn't aware of an alignment module. An alignment feature was something I wished for while coding this! Thanks for pointing it out. Killing the girl will deduct alignment by n*, returning her and taking payment will increase it a little, and refusing the payment by more.

I'll make all the rewards and penalties configurable for the next version. Thanks for the feedback!

Ah, thanks for pointing that out. Hopefully I'll be releasing an update soon with a few fixes and a few little extras. I must admit I hadn't spotted that one. Thanks again!

Where exactly is the little girls morther?

First of all, let me thank you guys for another great module. My players are having quite a nice time taking care of the little lost girls, or sometimes plainly chopping their heads off.

Yet, I'm creating a german server, meaning I'm naturaly using Nightborn's Translation Module. What happens is, it seems this module isn't translation ready. So while in the php code you have outputs like
what I get in the Translation Module is something like:

This pretty much means I need to translate every sentence for each girl, each player and each DK-Title using the Translation Module.

Which I didn't.

Naturally, at least in my eyes the only way to solve this was to change the php file itself. As far as I have seen in this forum and from the license agreement, modifying the php-file, even for a translation, is undesired and I should at least send a copy of the modification to the creator of the mod.

So my two questions are:

1. Do I send DaveS or defproc the file (or both)?

2. Do I need to modify in any way the description of the mod or the author name to make it clear that I have indeed modified the php file?

Just so you know, you don't have to  keep my name on the module if you make more "fixes" to it...

I just put my name on the author page because I was insecure about whether I would cause more problems than fix them so it was more of a "warning" to people than anything

If you know your code is valid and it's a fix, then you can just change the version number and put a little code at  the beginning like this:

//V1.5 Fixed translation readiness by SexyCook

Not at all, thank you guys for the game and modules. I'm learning quite a lot of php and sql and having fun at the same time.

I attached the file in my post, here's a short changelog

- Added "by DaveS" to "V1.1" on line 54
- Added "V1.2" line on now line 55
- changed "author" and "version" values on lines 65 and 66
- translation ready-ed every "output", "addnews" and "pageheader"
- added kickme's fix to the soulpoints bug in line 216


There were 2 exceptions to the translation readying:
- "apply_buff('Inspiration'," beginning at line 240 I didn't touch, as arrays are not discussed in this thread
- "addnav("Little %s",$name);" doesn't work in line 243, marked it as a comment and changed it to "addnav("Little Girl");" in line 244

The trouble with the buff is the translation readying, as it contains:
right now I'm having to translate each name and roundmsg for each girl.


As far as I can see the old
on line 343 is only there to give a title to the options side menu.
Changing it to
makes a link out of "Little %s", that's why I changed it to "Little Girl", which leaves this line as an options title.